Thursday, March 20, 2008

I erred yesterday when I wrote my last post (just below this one) and I want to correct myself. Now. I thought about it a lot last night and I'm up early (it's even early for me!) to correct myself, to say "My bad." Here goes...

When I first heard of the threatened travel boycott by the Red Sox players yesterday, I immediately thought of the many Red Sox fans from Japan who were waiting patiently for the team, THEIR team, to cross the Japanese shores, many of them with precious tickets in their hands as the team winged in from America. I thought of all the sad faces of the children who had their hearts set on seeing their heros from the USA, the champions of the world. So I wrote a post describing the Sox players as being selfish, of thinking only of themselves and not their fans. Boy, was I wrong.

This was a show of team unity unlike any others in my recent memory. Because Major League Baseball decided NOT to pay the Red Sox coaches the same appearance fee that the players would receive, they rose up as one and in a single voice shouted out "NO! We won't go unless the compensation is the same for all." All for one, one for all, the mark of a great team. In the end, things were ironed out, the coaches will be paid and as I write this, the contingent from Boston is just a few hours away from standing firmly and proudly on Red Sox International turf. And that's just so great.

So I want to apologize for my spur-of-the-moment incorrect interpretation of things. I've written at least one post every single day for the past two plus years, and errors are bound to happen. As Emily Litella used to say, and the words fit this situation perfectly (thank you Gilda...I miss you so much), "NEVER MIND."

Thank you, my Constant Readers, and as always, BE WELL. Forever. And click on the title of this post for the Boston Globe's article about the team unity our Sox showed. It's a minute by minute account of yesterday's goings-on, and it's riveting reading.

11 Comments:

Thanks Lisa. I was never off board, just lost with mistaken conclusions. And mistaken they were...bigtime. As Billy Joel once said in a wonderful song..."We're only human, we're SUPPOSED to make mistakes." And I did. BIGTIME. I appreciate you stopping by. Always. Peter.

I understand your angst yesterday. I thought to myself, "How can these guys be getting a $40k bonus for a trip to Japan?"

In the end, it seems to be (based on Mike Lowell's comments) an issue of the league saying one thing to get the team to agree to this PR trip, and then trying to reneg. I also hear then yesterday evening in MLB Home Plate (XM) that aside from the manager and first 4 coaches, other team staff get no merchandising residuals and, more surprisingly, no pensions.

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